And therewithall also he ment too assure the Gentyles, too the intent they shoulde receiue the message of their saluation, as proceeding of God, and not of man. For wee must alwayes bee at this poynt, that the forgiuenesse of sinnes is too precious a thing for vs too bee assured of by the authoritie of man. Then must wee bee fully resolued, that it is God which speaketh,Math. 18. c. 18. too the end we may conclude, that whatsoeuer is vnbounde on earth,1. Cor. 15. b. 9. is vnbounde also in heauen. And forasmuch as S. Paule had erst bin an enemie too the Gospell, and had persecuted the Christians,1. Tim. 1. b. 13. and blasphemed God: it seemed that that should haue impeached the receyuing of him for an Apostle, and the yeelding of such reputation too him as was requisite that he should haue. There∣fore he preuenteth the things that might bee alledged too bereeue him of all reuerence, and sayth, that they must not haue an eye too his owne person, nor too his deseruing, but too Gods aduauncing of him by his grace, and by a power that is not ordinarye among men. It is trew that S. Paule dooth alwayes humble himselfe as much as may bee, that men may the better knowe Gods free betowed goodnesse. And that also is the rule that wee must holde, bycause God will haue all mouthes stpped, and none of vs all too haue aught whereof too boast. For it is certeyne, that wee shall euermore but rob God of his honour, if wee confesse not that wee bee beholden too him for all thinges, and that wee haue not any thing at all of our owne. But (as I haue tou∣ched already) he ment heere too put away all lettes, too the end that no man myght vpbrayd him, that he was vnwoorthie of so excellent and great dignitie, as too bee of the number of the Apostles. His intent then was, to shewe that Gods grace surmounted all the impediments that could bee in him before. First he setteth downe Gods grace. It had bin ynough for him too haue graunted God so great prerogatiue, as too holde all things of him: but he setteth downe twoo wordes m, too exclude all that myght bee demaded of him. How now? (might some man haue sayd:) such condition, and such ought too be in an Apo∣stle: hast thou such vertew? And so yee see why he was not contented too set downe simply the gift, but also would needes adde, free bestow∣ed. And afterward he magnifyeth the same gift yit more, saying, that God vvrought therein according too the woorking of his povver. Too bee short, hee giueth men too vnderstand, that they ought to espye a singular and woonderfull goodnesse of God in him, and therwithall a power not ordinarie among men. Those are the twoo poynts which 0